okay, here's what happened….. the OP started the process late that night in his garage. He was attempting to remove the valve cover when he heard a noise outside. He walked out of the garage and looked around. It was just a large dog by his trash cans. So the OP went back to work. The next thing he hears is scraping at the garage door. He had just found the piece of foil and was carefully lifting it out of the engine when the scraping noise got louder. The OP placed the foil on top of his work bench and opened the garage door…..